Bloomz: For Teachers & Schools

Bloomz is very informative and gives parents and carers some good advice.

Really hard to find your way around. The back button doesn’t work - keep having to close the app and start again. Can reply to messages from the teachers on the phone, can’t see the shared screen when using the iPad, and the place where you upload assignments has disappeared since uploading my kid’s first assignment. Horrific app.

I love the idea of t but the app itself is very confusing and not very intuitive. I’m tech savvy and it took me ages to get what’s what. There’s way too many fancy options if all it has to do is to enable communication parent-teacher. Could and should be much simpler.

Great way to communicate with teachers and for them to share what the kids have been doing. Really easy to use. Love it!

If you'd have asked last year I'd have said Bloomz was a good app however start of a new term and I'm unable to access as I need to UPGRADE to have critical updates. Been to both the App Store and clicked on upgrade to do this and nothing... now I have no access to Bloomz. Fab 🙄

I like the interaction between teacher and parent etc but I get tonnes of notifications every time I log out of the app, literally 32 notifications waiting for me all the time! Very annoying

Makes your life easier and saves time! Instant messaging and uploading of lots of photos so parents really feel involved. Hoping to end our weekly newsletters and use Bloomz instead!

This was a good app for receiving communication from teachers but when you tried to send a message to teachers sometimes it would switch the name on you and send it to a different teacher. I still had to email certain teachers because the app would never send the message to the right teacher (messages to an elementary teacher were going to a middle school science teacher we didn’t even have).

I’m comparing this app to other apps I’ve had to use. First, bloomz doesn’t let me use one profile for multiple kids, so I’ve had to sign up under a new email for each child. The text links do not automatically take you to the app where you can use the code it just takes me to the last place I was in the app. It would be a pain for a parent with 3+ kids if each of their teachers ended up using bloomz at same time since you would have to sign in with a different email for each kid. Second, I have to sign out and sign back in when switching to another child’s profile which is time consuming. I don’t want to sit on my phone and keeping signing into /flipping through different tabs in the app. It’s not as straightforward, but I’ll have to deal with it. Third, the UI isn’t simple enough. With other teacher apps, sending a dm to the teacher is very easy. Here, I have to navigate where to send a message then type the teachers name in the search bar and also make sure I’m not sending my message to 22 other teachers. My suggested apps that are easy for everyone to use are REMIND or TALKING POINTS. You’re welcome.

My son’s camp is using this app and I really cannot recommend it. We have used all sorts of apps with our kids through school and none are as frustrating to navigate. The messaging feature works when it wants to. Sometimes it will not let me message at all. Sometimes it will only let me send a group message to all 56 families. Sometimes it works ok. We are supposed to message when we arrive for pick up and rarely will it pull up correctly for me to do so. The pictures also don’t all load so we miss out on seeing what our kids are up to all week. The announcements are also not displayed in an easy to use/see format. And just overall navigation of the app is frustrating- perhaps because the camp isn’t using all of the features. Regardless there are far better apps out there!